On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 05:03 pm, Anne Wilson wholly or partly mentioned :-
> The odd thing is that no-one ever bothered to say that after a root
> terminal session you could switch back to user immediately by typing
> 'exit'.  It suddenly became so much more convenient.
>
> Anne

Does it never end? I have never known that it was so easy to become user 
again. In Slackware I used <login> in the terminal and have to go through the 
password and everything rigmarole to get back to user. I do this in Mandrake 
and the shell vanishes, but can be brought up again, and when I shutdown, I 
don't have the option of the dragon shutdown, but get back to a terminal 
/sbin/shutdown -h now as root.

Thanks for that info Anne. I consider it among all the other very important 
trivia that some people take for granted that I don't know. These little 
things that make everything faster and easier. Linux is so very comfortable 
because it allows the shell to be used with the GUI in the background and 
vice versa.

Thank you.

Charlie

-- 
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and 
hour.

Stephen Leacock

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